tortured by british colonialists in a prison outside nairobi. marinist deems the tale unlikely. some were for the purposes of advancing seams in his book which haded mre to do with finding his racial identity. a composite character named regina who helped the young man embrace his african american heritage is believed to be based on michelle obama who wouldn t enter his life for another 8 years. similarly he argued of having quarterlied with his white girlfriend after they attended a black theater production in manhattan. the incident happened with a different woman in chicago. something the president admitted in an oval office interview with mariniss. though i have no recollection of having conversations about this after all it was 18 years ago, it is